Moving Programs from one OS to another?

Hi!

I dual boot XP and Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop. XP runs really really slowly. I want to move some programs from the XP partition to the Ubuntu partition and run them with wine. However, when I try to do this, it runs, but I get an error telling me that I need to reinstall because there has been a problem. No more details than that. Has anyone done this before and can give me some advice?

Also, yes I have marked them as executables and they are large programs... like Photoshop and Dreamweaver, so not just a simple exe to transfer.

. Most Windows programs make changes to the Registry and put support files in specific locations when the installer program is run. If you just copy the files from the Program Files directory, you don't make the required Registry changes and you aren't putting the support files where the app expects them to be.. Search for "no-install apps" to find programs that will run from just about anywhere without having to run an installer.